the quietest place in new york city and one of the most inspiring places. i realized the students were in their classrooms and they were in thrall to buy what they were doing. and aviation high, a network of career and technical training high schools in new york and in this school aviation, and the kids had to spend half of the day, standard academics, math, history and english and have to do well in those courses in order to spend time in the playground working on -- fedex donated an airplane, says the 411 and kids tinker with it and you have to do well in your class. kids will do anything to go and be able to work on that airplane and classes in the afternoon, they work on these shops and build and disassemble a jet engine, learning about all about aeronautics, many of the kids are drawn from economically distressed homes and broken homes and all sorts of social problems, very large number of latino, asian and african american children, all over the school, 87% male. there are girls at aviation high and they are fantastic, they are leaders in the school b